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Meatloaf Transcendent

This deeply delicious meatloaf recipe—from MeMe’s Diner in Brooklyn—is like the perfect childhood you never had

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Priya Krishna

Sept. 6, 2018 2:10 p.m. ET

MEATLOAF HAS an image problem. “It’s a clunker of a dish,” said Libby Willis, co-owner of MeMe’s Diner in Brooklyn. And yet, since the restaurant opened late last year, its meatloaf has been the best-selling dish.

The iteration at MeMe’s is everything meatloaf ought to be but too seldom is: juicy throughout, well seasoned, tasting deeply of umami and generously sauced. The dense, flavorless slab you may recall from school lunches this is not.